December 16, 2012, Sunday

I used to think I should not timestravel for more than a year, because I might get stuck in a time warp and not be able to make it back. But there was no good reason to think that, so I just sailed along, and now we are two months and ten days past...

December 9, 2009, Wednesday

Whatever credibility Dr. Frederick A. Cook's claim to discovering the north pole might still have seems to be obliterated today as The Times publishes the sworn testimony of two men who say they aided Cook in preparing fraudulent documentation of his...

December 9, 2009, Wednesday

In his first annual message to Congress, President Taft's emphasis was on American commercial interests, in particular his plans to enforce maximum tariffs only if necessary to support American trade and his anticipation of the opening of a...

December 8, 2009, Tuesday

The Phenix Fire Insurance Company evaded state investigation for the past 17 years by bribing former officials of the New York State Insurance Department with "loans," the department's superintendent, William H. Hotchkiss, says.

December 7, 2009, Monday

Making up 85 percent of a crowd of 8,000 at the Hippodrome yesterday, girls in the shirtwaist makers strike were encouraged in speeches by women's suffrage advocates, as well as labor leaders and socialists.

December 4, 2009, Friday

Jack Johnson will defend his heavyweight title against the former champion James J. Jeffries on July 4 in California "in the vicinity of San Francisco" in a fight that it is believed "will represent more cash than any other fight in the history of...

December 3, 2009, Thursday

The United States announced last night that it has broken off relations with the government of Nicaragua under José Santos Zelaya, and opened diplomatic channels with his rival, Gen. Juan Estrada. The move "brings the crisis as near the status of...